“SCORCHED EARTH”
HITLER FRUSTRATED “ In Russia Hitler aims at actual possession of the factories, the mineral and petroleum sources, and the labour man-power of that country. “ Every time the Nazis destroy a bridge, wreck a machine plant, annihilate a harbour, they are reducing the total value of the victory. If victorious, Hitler will have to re-build those economic and communications “ In relation to port cities like Leningrad and industrial aggregates in the Ukraine, the Nazis have avoided the use of all-out destructive methods such as they employed against Rotterdam, Prague, Coventry, Belgrade, and other points. Only cities without basic industrial value, such as Minsk and Smolensk, have suffered the annihilation type of offensive. “ Knowing full well that Germany’s principal interest was to take the bear alive, the Kremlin leaders answered with the policy of ‘ scorched earth.’ ” properties.
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 64, Issue 4522, 12 January 1942, Page 2
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